Jewish Community of North Minneapolis

Rhoda Lewin

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2001
• ISBN:
  9781439611081
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia de Norteamérica

The stories of the Jewish community of North Minneapolis are an important part of the rich and diverse mosaic of North Minneapolis history. By 1936, there were more than 16, 000 Jew in Minneapolis, and 70 percent of them lived on the North Side. The Jewish Community of North Minneapolis presents an intriguing record of the earliest beginnings of Jewish communities in the city. Through the medium of historic photographs, this book captures the cultural, economic, political, and social history of this community, from the late 1800s to the present day. The Jews in North Minneapolis enjoyed a busy social and cultural life with their landsmanschaften, and shopped together at the kosher butcher shops and fish markets, grocery stores and bakeries, clothing stores, barber shops, restaurants, and other small businesses that had sprung up along Sixth Avenue North and then Plymouth Avenue. Including vintage images and tales of the community-Hebrew schools, synagogues, and social groups-this collection uncovers the challenges and triumphs of the Jewish community.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• One - JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD
• Two - WHERE WE LIVED AND SHOPPED
• Three - WERE WE REALLY THE ANTISEMITISM CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES ?
• Four - OUR SYNAGOGUES AND RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS, AND OUR JEWISH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
• Five - SCHOOLS, SPORTS AND SOCIAL LIFE, LOVE AND MARRIAGE
• Six - AFTER WORLD WAR II WE MOVED TO THE SUBURBS—AND ISRAEL BECAME A STATE
• Seven - NORTH MINNEAPOLIS AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY TODAY